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SUMMARY:A Children's Puppet Show by Nancy Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 26th 3:00 pm \nA children’s  puppet show will be performed on May 26th at 3:00. The puppet stories will be told by Nancy. She may need your help with controlling the puppets. They can be unruly but are always playful!
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/a-childrens-puppet-show-by-nancy-wilkinson/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nina St Pierre discusses her memoir - Love is a Burning Thing
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 23rd  7 to 8 pm \nA riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving\, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine\, and who started two big fires\, decades apart. \nTen years before Nina was born\, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit\, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on\, her mother’s pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment. \nGrowing up\, Nina longed for a normal life; instead\, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother\, who chased ascension up and down the state of California\, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain–reputed to be cosmic–in Northern California\, Nina hoped life would stabilize. But after another fire\, and a tragic fallout\, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother’s mystical narratives. With obsessive dedication\, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her. \nIn Love Is a Burning Thing\, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing\, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health\, stigma\, poverty\, and gender–and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina’s writing skirts the mystical\, untangles it\, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/nina-st-pierre-discusses-her-memoir-love-is-a-burning-thing/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Sacred Cell with author Diane Tegtmeier and Circle Culture Tools for Cooperative Work with author Lauren Oliver
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 20th 7 to 8 pm \nJoin two friends\, Lauren Oliver and Diane Tegtmeier\, who have just published two books that they discovered carry complementary messages. Dr. Oliver’s book\, Circle Culture: Tools for Cooperative Work\, exemplifies the principles Diane Tegtmeier describes in The Sacred Cell: What Nature Teaches Us About Relationships.  \nCome to hear them read and discuss how their books offer co-creative approaches to healthy relationships that follow Nature’s principles to activate a paradigm shift toward our collective well-being.  If you struggle in relationships and long to work with others to co-create solutions to the challenges we face\, this event is for you.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/the-sacred-cell-with-author-diane-tegtmeier-and-circle-culture-tools-for-cooperative-work-with-author-lauren-oliver/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Spears Zacharias discusses her novel No Perfect Mothers - a fictional take on 1920s SCOTUS case re: Reproductive Rights
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 13th  7 to 8 pm \nWhile 1920s Charlottesville\, Virginia\, is a charming place to grow up\, there’s one thing Carrie Buck doesn’t like about her hometown–her home. Taken from her mother\, Carrie is put up for fostering as a toddler. At age ten\, Carrie is forced to leave school to work as a domestic. But when Carrie turns up pregnant at seventeen\, it is Miss Mora\, a Scottish immigrant and Charlottesville’s most competent midwife\, who she turns to. Fearing their nephew’s assault of Carrie will be discovered\, Carrie’s foster parents claim custody of her infant daughter and fraudulently commit her to the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. Dr. Priddy\, the colony’s superintendent\, deceptively labels Carrie an imbecile\, unfit to bear children. In pursuit of a legal argument granting states the right to forcibly sterilize individuals\, he exploits her. NO PERFECT MOTHERS explores characters\, historical and imagined\, who were parties to the infamous Buck v. Bell U.S. Supreme Court case of 1927. \n“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation”  Virginia Woolf \nhttps://www.salon.com/2024/02/26/the-case-of-carrie-buck-and-the-courts-century-old-crusade-to-control-women/
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/karen-spears-zacharias-discusses-her-novel-no-perfect-mothers-a-fictional-take-on-1920s-scotus-case-re-reproductive-rights/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wendy Williams discusses her memoir Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 6th  7 to 8 pm \nOperated on as an infant\, without anesthesia\, Wendy began life at war with her body. There were tubes everywhere\, in and out of every opening\, her mother reminded her on every anniversary of her surgery. Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery takes readers on Williams’ difficult sensory journey toward healing as she communes along the way with horseshoe crabs\, dolphins\, and other marine life that taught her the restorative power of beauty\, resilience\, and interdependence. At times luscious and lyrical\, at other times analytical and reflective\, this literary memoir portrays the dissociative experience of trauma and the roots of self-destructive cycles as well as the tragic results of medical beliefs at the time that infants could not feel pain. Autobiography of a Sea Creature is both a love letter to the earth and a hopeful testament of humans’ capacity to heal our deepest wounds. \nWendy will be introducing the book\, giving background about why she wrote it. She will read excerpts and after each one\, she will discuss the issues it brings up and give background information on the medical practices back in the 1950s.  She will discuss more about the consequences of infant surgery without anesthesia in today’s society.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/wendy-williams-discusses-her-memoir-autobiography-of-a-sea-creature-healing-the-trauma-of-infant-surgery/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ancient Secrets of the Rogue Valley with author Mahmoud Shelton
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 22nd  7 to 8 pm \n“Ashland is a threshold.” – Grandma Aggie \nThe historic settlement of the Rogue Valley in Oregon brought genocide\, but Native elder Agnes Baker Pilgrim offered a way towards healing for everyone. Despite her recent passing\, it may not be too late to recognize the importance of the Rogue Valley as a sacred landscape for healing. Join the author of Mysteries of Dune to explore hidden history\, Pythagorean symbolism\, Shakespeare and recent events\, and discover ancient secrets coming to light that have profound implications for a greater world.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/ancient-secrets-of-the-rogue-valley-with-author-mahmoud-shelton/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Victor Lodato will be reading and signing his new novel Honey
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday April 16th \n7 to 8 pm \nMeet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer’s Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga\, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster\, is returning home at last\, ready to reckon with her violent past. \nAs a rebellious teenager\, Honey managed to escape her father’s circle of influence and reinvent herself in a world of art and beauty\, working for a high-end auction house in Los Angeles. Now in her twilight years\, she decides to return home and unexpectedly falls in love. But in her family\, nothing has changed. When her grandnephew Michael bursts into her life in what appears to be a drug-fueled frenzy\, and her Lexus gets jacked\, it’s hard to keep minding her own business. As old cruelties begin to resurface\, Honey is no longer sure what she really wants–to forgive or to avenge. \nThis electrifying literary breakout from PEN USA Award-winning author Victor Lodato is a masterful and deeply moving portrait of love in all its forms\, of moral ambiguity\, and of inspiring change–a story of female rage that asks the question: What are the limits of compassion in a world gone mad? \nVictor Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novels Edgar and Lucy and Mathilda Savitch\, winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts\, his stories and essays regularly appear in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Granta\, and elsewhere. His novels and plays have been translated into eighteen languages. Born and raised in New Jersey\, he now lives in Oregon and Arizona.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/victor-lodato-will-be-reading-and-signing-his-new-novel-honey/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:David Evans reads from his new book of poetry Light Like No Other
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 15th  7 to 8 pm \nDavid Evans brings his wisdom\, immense heart\, and deep reverence for life to his second collection of poems\, Light Like No Other. In this intimate collection\, Evans explores his evolving relationship with self\, spirituality\, and the natural world.\nWith a conversational lyricism he meditates on healing from childhood trauma\, shame\, regret\, and self-judgment. His poems embody what it means to love fully\, move towards peace with our lives\, and find a tender acceptance of our mortality. The vulnerable pieces reveal a growing courage to feel deeply and face life as it is.\nEvans’ poems come alive with imagery of circling hawks\, flocks of geese\, soaring gulls\, chatting finches and talking mountains. On long walks over coastal beaches\, wetland paths\, along river banks\, and trails through headland forests\, his beloved Oregon sings with startling clarity\, providing the backdrop for his emerging self-love and a profoundly awakened relationship to life. He revises his old ideas about God and embraces a deep sense of gratitude and joy through a deeply felt inter-connectedness with the creative energy of the natural world. “Is this prayer enough?” he muses. “Where are you now Lord?” “Ask the sparrows. They will tell you. The whole universe is singing!” \nA gorgeous book for all seasons of life\, Light Like No Other will newly awaken you to the luminous beauty of the world and leave you tenderhearted and brimming with gratitude. –Rebecca Jamieson\, author of The Body of All Things
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/david-evans-reads-from-his-new-book-of-poetry-light-like-no-other/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Maureen Hicks discusses her new biography The Gift Shop at the DMZ
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 8th  7 to 8 pm \nWhen a Buddhist therapist contracts to counsel soldiers around the world\, her ingrained opposition to war stands in the way of happiness. Repelled but curious about military culture\, her careful listening to servicemembers and families leads to empathy and understanding for their challenges. In postings from the US to Germany to Korea\, serving soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan\, she learns to respect and serve those enduring trauma. Forced to practice informal counseling\, she wonders how she can make an impact. When the too-rare sessions lead to a struggle with depression\, she must reach out with letters to friends. Can a deeper study of Buddhism steady her? The immersion in military culture grows more savvy\, sanguine beliefs – so she might wrest deep meaning from absurdity. \nMaureen Hicks\, Ph.D. is a psychologist with thirty years of therapy experience.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/maureen-hicks-discusses-her-new-biography-the-gift-shop-at-the-dmz/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240407T160000
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SUMMARY:From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace with author Mitzi Asai Loftus
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 7th  4 to 5 pm \n“Mitsuko “Mitzi” Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 120\,000 people of Japanese ancestry–about two-thirds of them US citizens–from their homes on the West Coast to inland prison camps. They included Mitzi and most of her family\, who operated a fruit orchard in Hood River\, Oregon. The Asais spent much of World War II in the camps while two of the older sons served in the Pacific in the US Army. Three years later\, when the camps began to close\, the family returned to Hood River to find an altered community. Shop owners refused to serve neighbors they had known for decades; racism and hostility were open and largely unchecked. Humiliation and shame drove teenaged Mitzi to reject her Japanese heritage\, including her birth name. More than a decade later\, her life took another turn when a Fulbright grant sent her to teach in Japan\, where she reconnected with her roots. In From Thorns to Blossoms\, Mitzi recounts her rich and varied life\, from a childhood surrounded by barbed wire and hatred to a successful career as a high school English teacher and college instructor in English as a Second Language. Today\, Asai descendants continue to tend the Hood River farm while the town confronts its shameful history.  It’s the remarkable story of a transformation from thorns into blossoms\, pain into healing. \nBorn on a fruit orchard in Hood River\, Oregon\, in 1932\, Mitzi Asai Loftus spent three years of her childhood in government incarceration camps in California and Wyoming. For more than seventy years\, she has given public talks about her family’s experience to audiences of all ages. Having lived much of her adult life in Eugene and Coos Bay\, she now resides in Ashland.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/from-thorns-to-blossoms-a-japanese-american-family-in-war-and-peace-with-author-mitzi-asai-loftus/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Reading and Conversation with Novelist and Poet Charles Goodrich and Naturalist and Poet\, Pepper Trail.
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 4th   7 to 8 pm \nPlease join us for a reading and conversation with novelist and poet Charles Goodrich and naturalist and poet\, Pepper Trail. \nGoodrich’s new novel\, Weave Me a Crooked Basket\, tells the story of Ursula\, Bodie\, and Nu–scientist\, farmer\, and artist–trying to save a beloved farm from unscrupulous developers. Molly Gloss\, author of The Hearts of Horses\, says\, “I haven’t read a novel in a long time that felt this hopeful\, this authentic in feeling\, in landscape\, in the complexities of the lives of its people—ordinary people who are not only farmers and gardeners but artists and biologists and immigrants\, wives and husbands\, sisters and brothers.  It’s a marvelous book\, written with immense compassion and honesty\, insight and detail. I loved it.” Kathleen Dean Moore writes\, “Charles Goodrich is the Wendell Berry of the evergreen Northwest\, drawing unforgettable characters and a powerful story from the green hills and oxbow lakes of his valley. Part praise-song\, part social protest\, part page-turning plot\, Weave Me a Crooked Basket is deeply wise and beautifully written. For those who are weary of doom\, the book weaves a triumphant vision of the redemptive power of caring–for the land and for each other.” \nGoodrich will be joined by Ashland poet Pepper Trail\, author of Cascade-Siskiyou\, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award\, who has just returned from a stint as on-board naturalist for a National Geographic round-the-world tour.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/a-reading-and-conversation-with-novelist-and-poet-charles-goodrich-and-naturalist-and-poet-pepper-trail/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Philip Runia and Destinee
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 1st\n7 to 8 pm\n\nPhilip Runia is a writer and editor based in Portland\, OR. Their work has been published in the Daily Iowan\, Little Village Magazine\, Fools Magazine\, and their debut poetry collection Curses & Prayers.They enjoy serving literary reviews; they were Fiction Editor for Earthwords and are currently Associate Fiction Editor of Brink. As an editor\, they find purpose in facilitating the shine of underrepresented and innovative writers while growing in their own writing. Philip’s writing focuses on ideas of generational trauma and belonging\, affectation\, and the awkward balance between individual planes of existence.\n\n\nDestinee (she/her) began writing and performing spoken word poetry mid-2023 but has always been drawn to and enjoyed writing generally. spoken word\, is a medium that allows her to practice intentional vulnerability\, process life experiences and explore complex emotions\, thoughts\, and feelings. with her writing she hopes to encourage self expression as well as open a space for others to expand their minds by provoking thought and inner reflection.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/poetry-reading-with-philip-runia-and-destinee/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:CLOSE TO HOME: Sexual Abusers and Serial Killers\, Memoir and Murder with author Janine O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Monday March 25th 7 to 8 pm \n On February 5\, 1981\, a young couple passed by Ashland as they drove from Edmonds\, Washington to Nellis Air Force Base\, near Las Vegas\, for the man’s first military assignment. Late that night\, they were murdered by a long-haul trucker and self-proclaimed serial killer named Ward Weaver Jr. after their car broke down in California’s Tehachapi Mountains.\n      Twenty-one years later\, Weaver’s eponymously named son\, Ward Weaver III\, murdered two girls in Clackamas County\, Oregon. Then he buried one of the girl’s bodies under concrete in his own backyard\, just as his father had done with the young woman he’d kidnapped near Tehachapi.\n      In 2016\, while Ward Weaver Jr. was on death row in California and Ward III was serving life sentences in Oregon\, their son/grandson\, Francis Weaver\, was also convicted of murder in Clackamas County.\nMy book uses the Weaver family’s unique history as a hook from which to hang a broader story about why some people are more likely than others to become victims of violent crime\, perpetrators of violent crime or both. \n\nBiography\nAs an attorney\, I prosecuted crimes committed against children in Clackamas County for seven years. Had I not left the district attorney’s office there\, I would have expected to be one of the deputy DAs assigned to Ward Weaver III’s case. As it was\, I covered the story in my second career as a reporter for the Portland Tribune. I also am the former executive director of the Oregon Crime Victims Law Center and the mother of a child who—like Weaver III’s victims—was sexually assaulted by a known\, trusted adult. (My family’s experience is part of the memoir aspect of my book\, which I published under my unmarried name\, O’Neill\, to protect my family’s privacy.) \nWhat one reviewer said about the book \n“Best book\, local and true crime edition: Janine O’Neill’s Close to Home\, in which the Portland journalist and attorney who covered the 2002 Oregon City disappearances of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis takes a look at those murders (and others) through a multi-faceted lens: historical\, biological\, legal\, personal and intensely analytical. O’Neill tells several extremely difficult yet well-organized stories through her excellent and tight writing and top-notch investigative chops\, along with a dash of\, somehow\, self-effacing wit.” From the Portland Business Journal‘s “The PBJ’s best of 2023 in arts and culture.”
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/close-to-home-sexual-abusers-and-serial-killers-memoir-and-murder-with-author-janine-oneill/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:At the Ashland Library -TOUGH BROAD: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking\, How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age.
DESCRIPTION:Please join actress Alexandra Paul in conversation with her twin\, New York Times best-selling author Caroline Paul\, as they discuss Caroline’s newly published book\, TOUGH BROAD: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking\, How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age. \nMonday\, March 18th\n6 pm -7:30 pm\nAshland Public Library\, Gresham Room\nFood\, drinks\, and milling around provided\nBooks Provided by Bloomsbury Books \nAlso present to answer questions and offer insights will be two Ashland residents highlighted in the book: Dot Fisher-Smith\, solo hiker and camper\, and Sarah Paul (aka Mom)\, longtime member of the local bike group the Rogue Recyclers and one-time skydiver. \nTOUGH BROAD is author Caroline Paul’s (she/her) quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body\, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on getting older\, highlighting the results with outdoor adventures that range from flying a gyrocopter\, to scuba diving\, to learning to swim\, to walking in a park. TOUGH BROAD is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors\, not back away from it\, in our fifties\, sixties\, seventies and beyond\, casting our futures in a new and dazzling light.\nAlexandra Paul is an actress with over 100 TV and movie credits.  She is most known for starring on the TV series Baywatch\, but she has also worked alongside the likes of Tom Hanks\, Pierce Brosnan\, Kevin Costner.  She currently hosts the healthy lifestyle vegan podcast Switch4Good.  With an Ironman triathlon\, marathons and long distance ocean swims under her belt\, Alexandra is inspired after reading TOUGH BROAD to continue outdoor adventures into her 60s and beyond. To keep up with her twin\, she will have to!
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/at-the-ashland-library-tough-broad-from-boogie-boarding-to-wing-walking-how-outdoor-adventure-improves-our-lives-as-we-age/
LOCATION:Ashland Library\, 410 Siskiyou Blvd\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Carmen Portnoy discusses and reads from her new book The Women of Solemnity
DESCRIPTION:Monday March 11th  7 to 8 pm \nTHE WOMEN OF SOLEMNITY\, set in the 1990’s\, in Los Angeles\, Paris\, Ibiza and New York\, displays Carmen’s incomparable wit and perception as she explores the souls of seventeen women in this astonishing collection of short stories.\n\nMESMERIZING characters like Maria di Magenti\, the last daughter of the house of Solemnity\, whose skin smells like frangipani and hearts of palm. Darsala Murex\, the infamous nude of ‘Woman of the Flowers.” Frieda\, a true white-blond Norwegian\, who thought she could find and also lose herself by living in Paris. Lily\, an exquisite model who had made a million dollars by sixteen and at twenty\, had written her epitaph: “All she wanted was to waste into air\, without nightmares or staring eyes or tears. Now she is dead and happy\, my dears.”
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/carmen-portnoy-discusses-and-reads-from-her-new-book-the-women-of-solemnity/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line by S. Barbara Hilyer
DESCRIPTION:Monday March 4th 7 to 8 pm \nLegacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line  \nby S. Barbara Hilyer \nGrowing up white in Washington state\, Barbara’s dad never told her anything about his family—except that his mother was “crazy.” Ten years after his death\, she learned his sister was living in Hawai’i. Discovering “the family secret” introduced her to the concept of passing\, and the complex nature of race and identity. Uncommon in the white world\, passing is a familiar concept among African Americans. \nThis story challenges America’s oversimplified view of race and explores how different individuals across generations pursued all available avenues of opportunity to define their lives in a race-conscious society. American history is not white history\, although it has been presented that way. The times call for a truth telling. \nS. Barbara Hilyer spent her public school teaching career in Ashland\, Oregon\, where she taught elementary school as well as middle and high school social studies\, including American History. She holds a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instructional Leadership.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/legacy-lost-passing-across-the-color-line-by-s-barbara-hilyer/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240226T190000
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SUMMARY:Gavin Frye will discuss his new book - The Real You: Leading Your Life From Your Authentic Self
DESCRIPTION:Monday February 26th  7 to 8 pm \nTHE REAL YOU\nLeading Your Life From Your Authentic Self\nby Gavin Frye\, M.A.\, M.F.T.\nThis groundbreaking exploration of the Authentic Self flows from Gavin’s 45 years of experience as a licensed spiritual therapist and leadership mentor to entrepreneurs. The Real You is a comprehensive work that illuminates and makes accessible the universal path of the Authentic Self. It incorporates an in-depth understanding of trauma through the prism of the false self\, and makes the bold claim that one can only find joy and fulfillment by embracing and transcending the false self. This path of inner work is also immensely relevant on a macro level\, for as we own our Soul’s curriculum we are empowered to solve the major challenges unfolding in the world around us. \nIn addition to briefly reading from his new book\, THE REAL YOU: Leading Your Life From Your Authentic Self\, this dynamic talk will inform and inspire you into new levels of self-leadership\, and will include time for 1-on-1 personalized mentoring. Gavin brings 40 years experience as a spiritual therapist and leadership mentor for entrepreneurs. He will guide you in learning essential keys for facilitating empowerment within self and others:\n\n– Transforming imposter syndrome\, people pleasing\, insecurity around self-promotion\, and self-doubt into genuine confidence\n\n– Approaching entrepreneurship as an opportunity to mature in leadership\n\n– Embracing the multi-dimensional nature of your inner life and learn the unifying craft of facilitating empowering internal dialogue\n\n– Connecting with your intuition through self-observation and trust\n\n– Liberating your authentic voice in the day-to-day activities of your chosen profession\n\nDuring the talk\, you’ll be invited to see your current business expression as a powerful mirror and ally to your growth. You can choose to embrace the idea that challenges in business invariably invite you towards new levels of personal and business evolution.\n\nWith time for group sharing\, the skills and wisdom Gavin presents are designed to support you in practicing new tools for compassionate self-reflection\, cultivating creativity\, and steadily accomplishing your goals.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/gavin-frye-will-discuss-his-new-book-the-real-you-leading-your-life-from-your-authentic-self/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240219T190000
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SUMMARY:Raising Resilient Bees with local authors Eric and Joy McEwen
DESCRIPTION:Monday February 19th  7 to 8 pm \nWith over 100 color photographs and illustrations\, Raising Resilient Bees is the comprehensive source for new and experienced beekeepers\, offering a sustainable\, natural\, and repeatable model of care for hive health and production. Global pests and diseases present an unprecedented challenge for the modern honey bee. Hobby and commercial beekeepers alike continue to experience troubling rates of mortality for their colonies\, with potentially deleterious consequences for the stability of our wider ecosystems and overall food security. It is time for a global focus on restoring the health of the shared apiary through naturally reared\, genetically diverse\, and resilient lines of bees. Raising Resilient Bees establishes these parameters and provides guidance for new and experienced beekeepers alike to translate these goals into real practice\, thereby safeguarding the honey bee from the unknown threats of the future. \nAuthors Eric and Joy McEwen take two decades worth of beekeeping experience\, experiments\, and professional production to deliver groundbreaking methods in queen-rearing\, varroa mite management\, and Natural Nest hive design. Inside\, you’ll discover: -Revived and adapted heritage Integrated Pest Management techniques -How to naturally rear queens and select for resilient\, mite-resistant genetic lines without relying on swarming or grafting -Key tenets of apicentric beekeeping -Advice for establishing a flourishing and sustainable business with beekeeping at the center -How to naturally rear bees with distinctive characteristics suitable to their locale As in large-scale agriculture\, the trend toward genetic homogenization is having long-term implications for bees’ capacity to withstand diverse environmental stressors. With expert advice\, enthusiasm\, and easy-to-follow instructions\, Raising Resilient Bees delivers important and timely information for every beekeeper to create a healthier future
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/raising-resilient-bees-with-local-authors-eric-and-joy-mcewen/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T190000
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SUMMARY:Lucid Dreaming\, Lucid Living with authors Nisha and Norma Burton
DESCRIPTION:Monday February 12th  7 to 8 pm \nThe Lucid Dreaming\, Lucid Living oracle deck and book teaches you the skills of lucid dreaming in a unique\, non-linear way. Learn how to navigate through various states of consciousness with lucidity. Whether you are an experienced lucid dreamer or just beginning your journey\, each card in the deck provides you with valuable tools to navigate the dream worlds as well as powerful answers to daily life dilemmas. The write ups for these stunning cards contain two aspects —the waking message and the dreaming message— thus integrating the instructions for both states of consciousness. Meditating on these insightful cards will strengthen your abilities to dream lucidly and will offer guidance on how to move through waking reality more connected to your deep intuition.\n\n\n\n\nNorma Burton is a master of transpersonal psychology and scholar of world religions\, specializing in Buddhist psychology\, Jungian dream work\, and trauma healing. With nine years of advanced academic degrees and over 30 years of apprenticeship with indigenous elders\, Norma brings a rare level of expertise in guiding the exploration of the subconscious Dreamtime. \n\n\nNisha Burton is a skilled dream worker\, filmmaker\, technologist\, and digital artist\, trained in the art of journeying into the deep subconscious from a young age. She weaves the information that she has learned with masters into her own first-hand\, advanced experience in the lucid dream realms.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/lucid-dreaming-lucid-living-with-authors-nisha-and-norma-burton/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lobo: The Hunted And The Hunter\, a graphic novel\, with author Robert Young
DESCRIPTION:Monday February 5th \n7 to 8 pm \nLobo: The Hunted And The Hunter is based on a true story of an epic encounter that changes a wolf\, a man\, and America forever. \nThe year: 1893. Wolves have been nearly exterminated in North America. In the northern New Mexico territory\, a small pack survives\, preying on local ranchers’ cattle. This pack is led by a smart and cunning wolf that would become known as Lobo. \n      Desperate to stop the cunning and intelligent wolf\, the ranchers offer a bounty  to anyone who can stop Lobo and his pack. Enter Ernest Thompson Seton: artist\, writer\, naturalist\, and expert wolf hunter. But as Seton hunts Lobo he sees a wild west rapidly disappearing\, one that may be lost forever. \n      Lobo: The Hunted And The Hunter is the retelling of Seton’s classic story – LOBO – and the legacy of his fateful encounter with the wolf\, a legacy that continues to this day. \nRobert Young is the author of 28 books\, most of them middle-grade nonfiction. Topics for his books have ranged from chewing gum to Ellis Island\, from baseball to the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Wolves have been a lifelong interest\, and he came across the story of Lobo and Ernest Thompson Seton while researching these fascinating animals. This book\, Robert’s first graphic novel\, is intended for older readers and adults. His talk will focus on the seven year journey of creating this book.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/lobo-the-hunted-and-the-hunter-a-graphic-novel-with-author-robert-young/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T190000
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SUMMARY:John Brennan talks about his new book Brain Shift
DESCRIPTION:Monday January 29th \n7 to 8 pm \nBrain Shift From Head to Heart \nIf I\, a military engineer\, can transmute to become a shamanic practitioner\, so can you.  Follow my transformational process as Nature and Native American ceremony awoke my true self.  It seems as if the helping spirits placed stepping stones in front of me. Every time I took one step and learned something they placed another stone in front of me. \nWe all have skills hidden by modern western cultural norms which you can find within yourself through shamanic journeying. Get answers to life’s questions through divination\, heal your own self through soul retrieval\, communicate with ancestors in journeys\, erase negative energies through ceremonies. \nAct when an opportunity is presented. Find out what makes you come fully alive. Do that. The world needs people who have come fully alive. \n 
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/john-brennan-talks-about-his-new-book-brain-shift/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240122T190000
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SUMMARY:Lynn Ransford talks about her new book Grandma\, Tell Me a Story about Your Adventures
DESCRIPTION:Monday January 22nd \n7 to 8 pm \nGrandchildren\, and now readers of all ages\, enjoy the true tales of wacky\, rollicking adventures…sometimes poignant\, sometimes a little scary…like encountering bears\, a moose\, a bull\, or frogs in the middle of the night.  A retired teacher\, Lynn can’t resist inserting little bits of history into stories about places in the Rogue Valley or as far away as the Azores.   \n    If you like hiking\, camping\, traveling\, or prefer to enjoy adventures vicariously\, you are invited to join Lynn for an hour of entertaining short stories – and a reminder of how important it is to be able to laugh at ourselves and our funny predicaments.    \nLynn Ransford is an Ashland author and avid hiker. Her two previous books are “Grandma\, Tell Me a Story About Bears” and “Grandma\, Tell Me a Story About Critters”
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/lynn-ransford-talks-about-her-new-book-grandma-tell-me-a-story-about-your-adventures/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240115T190000
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SUMMARY:Erin Zelinka will be talking about her new memoir On Love and Travel
DESCRIPTION:Monday January 15th  7 to 8 pm \nWhen an offbeat new job and office romance upend Erin Zelinka’s marriage\, career and belief system\, she flees for Latin America. From Peru to Colombia to the indigenous islands of Guna Yala\, she seeks to heal and trust her heart\, after a decade of striving for others’ approval. Whether crewing as a deckhand for an alcoholic captain or quitting all media to escape her failed love’s reach\, she starts living on her own terms. This story is the inspirational evidence that following your inner truth\, while not always easy\, will take you to precisely where you’re meant to be.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/erin-zelinka-will-be-talking-about-her-new-memoir-on-love-and-travel/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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